American Naturalist

Article	Citations
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change	341
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy	55
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations	55
Front and Back Matter	49
Front and Back Matter	49
Front and Back Matter	37
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models	36
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey	34
Milking It: Repeated Postweaning Suckling Events in Galápagos Sea Lions ( Zalophus wollebaeki )	28
Front and Back Matter	27
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History	27
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse	27
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations	26
Inbreeding and Competitor’s Genetic Relatedness Affect Dynamic Male Color Ornament Expression in a Cichlid Fish	25
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna	23
Front and Back Matter	22
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?	22
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms	22
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps	20
When Does the Probability of Evolutionary Rescue Increase with the Strength of Selection despite a Potential Demographic Cost?	20
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs	20
Front and Back Matter	20
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet	19
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)	19
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice	19

Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition	18
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees	18
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies	18
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes	18
A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence	17
Linking Genomic Offset Statistics to the Shape of Selection Gradients	17
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density	17
From Fear to Feast: Rattlesnakes Navigate the Landscape of Fear to Optimize Foraging	17
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness	16
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites	16
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift	16
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish	16
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress	16
On pachycephalosaurs, trade-offs, and the historical genesis of sociosexual display structures	16
Rethinking Tipping Points in Spatial Ecosystems	16
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds	15
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor	15
Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive	15
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees	15
Front and Back Matter	15
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males	15
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities	15
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities	15
Front and Back Matter	15
Deconstructing the Morphological Basis of Ecogeographic Variation in the Hand-Wing Index, a Widely Used Proxy for Avian Mobility, in the Yellow Warbler ( Setophaga petechia	15
The Geometry of Macroevolution: Phenotypic Evolution on Non-Euclidean Manifolds	14
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards	14
Front and Back Matter	14
Pollinator and Flower Morphology Interact to Affect Pollen Receipt	14
Longevity Hinders Evolutionary Rescue through Slower Growth but Not Necessarily Slower Adaptation	14
Sex Allocation and Reproductive Success in a Perennial Hermaphroditic Herb: Both Size and Timing Matter	14
Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change	14
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard	14
Physiological Color Change in the Neotropical Tree Frog ( Pithecopus hypochondrialis ) as a Potential Mechanism of Nocturnal Camouflage	14
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments	13
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog	13
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors	13
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited	13
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network	13
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales	13
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish	13
Corrigendum	13
The Contributions of Microbial Interactions to Abrupt Ecosystem Changes during the Late Quaternary	13
Shielded by the dead: how killed bacteria shape the dynamics and evolution of innate immunity	13
Positional intra-clutch variation in egg shape associated with maternal guarding in a shield bug	13
Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist	13
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks	12
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism	12
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories	12
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission	12

Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes	12
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes	12
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization	12
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird	12
How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms	11
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers	11
Secretary’s Report, 2023	11
The Demographic Consequences of Adaptation: Evidence from Experimental Evolution	11
The Evolution of Mate Attachment	11
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants	11
Traffic reduction during Covid-19 lockdowns benefited species already tolerant of noise pollution: an acoustic analysis	11
Front and Back Matter	11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window	11
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection	11
Bargain to Be Dominant	11
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology	11
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating	10
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate	10
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality	10
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods	10
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation	10
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix	10
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community	10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)	10
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems	10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory	10
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms	10
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny	10
Raptor Perception of Mismatch in Seasonally Polyphenic Prey	10
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects	10
Genome Composition Predicts Physiological Responses to Temperature in Polyploid Salamanders	10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities	10
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes	9
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster	9
Front and Back Matter	9
The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future	9
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities	9
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance	9
The Evolution of Dependence and Cohesion in Incipient Endosymbioses	9
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)	9
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny	9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons ( Papio cynocephalus )	9
The Characteristics of Inducible Defenses Influence Predator-Prey Dynamics	9
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations	9
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator	9
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees	9
Rensch’s Rule Is Not Supported by a Mammals-Wide Analysis	9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish	9
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists	9
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly	9
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss	9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes	9
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations	9
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation	8
Organisms as Complex Structures Wrapped in a Complex Web of Life	8
No Evidence for Paternal Age Effects on Sons or Daughters When Accounting for Paternal Sperm Storage	8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga	8
A Variance Partitioning Approach Identifies the Absence of Mate Choice and the Lack of Forced Copulation in the Water Strider Gerris gracilicornis	8
Secretary’s Report, 2025	8
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance	8
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons	8
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics	8
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming	8
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio	8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis	8
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes	8
Front and Back Matter	8
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense	8
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) Range Expansion	8
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test	8
Front and Back Matter	8
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids	8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce	8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change	8
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars	8
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition	8

Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales	8
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists	8
When correcting for regression to the mean is worse than no correction at all	8
Frequency-Dependent Hybridization Contributes to Habitat Segregation in Monkeyflowers	8
Evolution of Threespine Stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) Defensive Traits following the Stocking of Brook Trout ( Salvelinus	7
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review	7
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output	7
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics	7
Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation	7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution	7
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga	7
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds	7
Hot-Dry Weather Is Associated with Worse Reproductive Outcomes Regardless of Group Composition in a Long-Lived Cooperatively Breeding Bird	7
Learned Sex Discrimination and the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior	7
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change	7
The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model	7
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers	7
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates	7
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change	7
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes	7
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Allee Effects and Coexistence	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect	7
Secretary’s Report, 2024	7
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment	7
Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Molting Strategy Influences Vulnerability to Climate Change in Migratory Birds	6
On the Interpretation of the Operation of Natural Selection in Class-Structured Populations	6
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks	6
Fruit Size in Indo-Malayan Island Plants Is More Strongly Influenced by Filtering than by In Situ Evolution	6
Positive Association between Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism and Male-Skewed Operational Sex Ratio in Anurans	6
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling	6
The Baldwin Effect Reloaded: Intermediate Levels of Phenotypic Plasticity Favor Evolutionary Rescue	6
Interactions between mechanisms of reproductive isolation	6
Morphological and Ecological Predictors of Migration in Shorebirds (A Phylogenetic Perspective)	6
In Memoriam	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Thermal Plasticity in Behavioral Traits Mediates Mating and Reproductive Dynamics in an Ectotherm	6
On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna	6
Inverse Lansing Effect: Maternal Age and Provisioning Affecting Daughters’ Longevity and Male Offspring Production	6
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat	6
The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits	6
Female Audience Shapes the Complexity and Syntax of Male Courtship Displays in a Lek-Mating Bird	6
Seminal Fluid Proteins as Regulation Factors for Optimizing Reproduction: A Modeling Approach	6
Null Models for the Opportunity for Selection	6
A New Twist on an Old Story: Pollination and Seed Predation in Jadera haematoloma	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog	6
Environmental Fluctuations Promote Host Reward Strategies That Maintain Partner Diversity in Multispecies Mutualisms	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Sex Allocation in a Monogamous Bird: Advantaged Matrilines and Sons with Silver Spoons	6
Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations	6
Conserved Polymorphism, Fossils, and the Macroevolutionary Reach of Microevolution	6
When Do Traits Tell More Than Species about a Metacommunity? A Synthesis across Ecosystems and Scales	6
The Challenge of Genomic Forecasting in an Era of Global Change	6
Forecasting Genomic Change with Time Series Sequence Data	6
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)	6
Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution	6
2025 Publication Awards	6
Evolutionary Lability of Sexual Selection and Its Implications for Speciation and Macroevolution	5
Heterogeneous predation, community asynchrony, and metacommunity stability in cyanobacterial mats	5
Differential Stage-Specific Mortality as a Mechanism for Diversification	5
Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species	5
Neotropical Birds Respond Innately to Unfamiliar Acoustic Signals	5
Coevolution of Patch Selection in Stochastic Environments	5
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors	5
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks ( Eremophila alpestris )	5
Dynamic Changes in Begging Signal Short-Term Information on Hunger and Need	5
High Juvenile Mortality Overwhelms Benefits of Mating Potential for Reproductive Fitness	5
An Elevational Phylogeographic Diversity Gradient in Neotropical Birds Is Decoupled from Speciation Rates	5
Front and Back Matter	5
Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya	5
Scaling of Activity Space in Marine Organisms across Latitudinal Gradients	5
Density-Dependent Selection during Range Expansion Affects Expansion Load in Life History Traits	5
Better Together: Offspring Benefit from Siblings in Both the Absence and the Presence of Parents	5
Shifts in Mutation Bias Promote Mutators by Altering the Distribution of Fitness Effects	5
Species Diversity and Habitat Fragmentation Per Se: The Influence of Local Extinctions and Species Clustering	5
Bayesian Prediction of Multivariate Ecology from Phenotypic Data Yields New Insights into the Diets of Extant and Extinct Taxa	5
Unequal Reproduction Early in a Social Transition: Insights from Invasive Wasps	5
Front and Back Matter	5
Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped This Special Section	5
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities of Clarkia Species: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement	5
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits	5
Niche Specificity, Polygeny, and Pleiotropy in Herbivorous Insects	5
What Ecological Factors Favor Parthenogenesis over Sexual Reproduction? A Study on the Facultatively Parthenogenetic Mayfly Alainites muticus in Natural	5
Impacts of Epistasis, Recombination, and Genome Architecture on Population Recovery following Radical Habitat Change	5
Brood Parasites That Care: Alternative Nesting Tactics in a Subsocial Wasp	5